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Originally Posted by Peanut
Yeah, that's my point though. We know where our friggin cell phones are at all times thanks to GPS. How is it possible that multi-million dollar machines carrying hundreds of people are not being live-tracked? It's just insane to me that MH370 "vanished" completely. And this plane is looking more likely it will be found, but how can they not know where to look? That's the part that, imo, is a very valid question. They SHOULD know where to look. The fact that they don't is a fairly significant problem, imo. The status quo of just sort of guesstimating where these planes are is obviously not good enough.
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We don't know the circumstances yet - they wanted to raise altitude - did they go to high? Did equipment (such as what is used for GPS and tracking) freeze and stop working/provide invalid data? I'm sure somewhere out there, people are trying to find a more reliable system to ensure planes always have some sort of system that pings their location after MH370 happened.
And if it is at the bottom of the ocean, then they are really looking for little bits of debris / sign on the surface to then try to find deep down in the ocean. Then factor in currents, waves, wind, etc then even if they find debris it won't be 100% reliable on that's the spot, just gives a better search area.
Not every bit of technology is perfect, clearly. Things can go wrong, it's just really weird this happened twice in the same year. The Air France 447 flight took 2 years to find the plane.